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Join us for a weekend of performance, panel discussions, tours and workshops exploring the questions raised by our ‘Thirst: In search of Freshwater’ exhibition.

Can you help us better understand and care for the collections we hold?

We lend material from our collections to museums and galleries in the UK and worldwide.

'Finger Talk' is a new British Sign Language (BSL) artwork by Cathy Mager that invites you to enter a space shaped by deaf perspectives.

Grace Spence Green was a fourth-year medical student when a man jumped off a balcony in a shopping centre and landed on her. She recalls her first moments in the hospital as a newly disabled patient.

Get in touch if you have a question about visiting Wellcome Collection or want to know more about our collections.

Join a hands-on workshop where you can experiment with light, colour, shadows and projection to create your own large-scale, moving artworks.

Join this physical movement workshop to learn how to create silhouettes with your hands and body for storytelling, self-expression and communication.

Join us for a gallery tour and discussion on the historical context of zine-making.

Join us for a theatre workshop where you will explore the lived experience of breastfeeding through acting.

Discover more about the 'Thirst: In Search of Freshwater' exhibition on one of our BSL-interpreted tours.

Join us for an evening of Visual Vernacular and poetry performances to reflect on the power of sign language to unite, express and communicate.

We welcome group visits. We can help you with advanced bookings for tours, and answer any other questions you have about bringing your group to our building.

Join our Visitor Experience and Engagement team for a drop-in object-handling session, where you can get up close to some of the items in our collection.

Take a Deaf-led BSL tour of the ‘1880 THAT’ exhibition led by Damaris Cooke who worked on the exhibition.

In July 2025 Wellcome Collection presents ‘Finger Talk’, a powerful new British Sign Language (BSL) audiovisual installation by artist and curator Cathy Mager, in collaboration with deaf artists and contributors.

Join Claudia Hammond from the BBC and guests to discuss the relationship between water, climate change and health.

Residents from 2016–18, Created Out of Mind was led by University College London (UCL) and aimed to shape perceptions of dementia through science and the creative arts.

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Historian Molly Conisbee reflects on how we’ve paid our respects to the dead over the centuries – from lively gatherings around open coffins to sympathetic text messages – asking how mourning rituals can create communities.